The first time I ever saw the name, Trump, it was on an athletic supporter. Now it`s on half the buildings in New York city. If Sumner Baye and Abe Hirschfeld have their way, it also will be on the White House mailbox. They have launched a campaign to make Donald Trump the first multi- billionaire president of the United States. When they fired their opening shot last week, a full page ad in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and other newspapers, they constituted the entire membership of the "People for Trump" movement.

Panama is upping its ante as a travel destination: The developer of the Trump hotel and tower in Panama's capital said South Africa's Sun International will invest $105 million at the property to add a casino by mid-2014. The new casino at the Trump Ocean Club will have its own lobby and feature 600 slot machines, 32 gaming tables, a restaurant and a lounge area. It also will have exclsuive areas for top clients. The 70-story Trump Ocean Club includes residences, a hotel, restaurants, fitness center, five pools, retail and other amenities.

Developer and casino operator Donald Trump is expected to hold a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday to outline plans to build an office and apartment complex in the Russian city styled after his Trump Tower property in New York's midtown Manhattan. Trump is scheduled to conduct the conference with Miami-based Brooke Group Ltd., a tobacco company controlled by corporate raider Bennett LeBow, said Howard Lerber, president of Brooke's New Valley unit. "We are looking at a few sites now on which to build a residential-and-office-style complex in a joint venture with Trump," said Lerber.

Planting a tree that interferes with electrical service will become outlawed in Tequesta if Village Councilors approve an ordinance establishing standards for vegetation near overhead utilities. The proposed ordinance, which goes before the council in the first of two required readings on Tuesday, provides electric utilities the right to access private property in order to maintain, trim and remove vegetation that may affect electrical service. "A greater percentage of the power lines that are downed are downed due to intrusion of trees or limbs falling, not because of the failure of a pole or a line," said Tequesta Mayor Jim Humpage.

A giant "You're Fired" sign on the Trump Tower in Manhattan has earned Donald Trump's development firm four summonses from the city. The firm does not have a permit and was asked on four occasions to remove the 13-foot tall, 25-foot wide banner that promotes the hit reality television show The Apprentice, the New York Post first reported Friday. Trump told The Daily News that the Fifth Avenue skyscraper's sign was a tourist attraction and "New York should appreciate it instead of fighting it."

The Dutch like the way Peter Sellars thinks. The revisionist director, who has transported Mozart's Nozze di Figaro to Trump Tower in New York in the early 1990s and Handel's Julius Caesar to the present-day Middle East, was honored for his rebellious mind on Tuesday with this year's Erasmus Prize, presented by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Established in 1958, the prize is awarded for contributions to European culture. Sellars and this year's other recipient, the German composer Mauricio Kagel, are "pioneering and nondogmatic freethinkers," said a spokesperson for the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, which sponsors the awards.

Palm Beach Town Council member Allen S. Wyatt said on Thursday that Donald Trump's latest lawsuit against the town _ on behalf of Mar-a-Lago, Trump's mansion-turned-private club _ "hasn't got a prayer." In a lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Trump rekindled part of an earlier lawsuit when he claimed town officials had a financial stake in competing clubs and preserved their own interests when they denied a request to ease restrictions on his club. Trump bought the 118-room mansion for $7 million in 1985 and converted it into a private club 10 years later.

Sean Penn will pay up to $80 a day for lodgings in a private Los Angeles jail facility at a secret location, and with time off for good behavior, the actor -- who starred in Bad Boys, a film about imprisoned youths -- will serve only 32 days of a 60-day sentence, a court commissioner ruled Tuesday. Defense attorney Howard Weitzman won permission for Penn to serve his sentence, for punching a movie extra, in two installments. He will spend five days in jail beginning Aug. 1, then leave to finish film projects in New York and West Germany and return Aug. 22 to serve 27 days more behind bars.

A business executive accused of defrauding 225 tourists from Ghana out of $800,000 was carrying something unusual in his wallet when he was arrested last month at his Trump Tower apartment - a welfare ID card. It seemed odd that a resident of the pricey Manhattan tower might need public assistance, so detectives began investigating Herbert Steed's background. Prosecutors say they discovered a 30-year career of con games across three continents. Steed, 63, was indicted on Thursday on charges that he received $3,000 in public assistance from the home-relief benefits program, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said.

Watch out, Robert Redford. A new star has been born. His name is Donald Trump. And if he takes on show biz like he took on the real estate, casino and sports biz, you`re in for a little competition in Hollywood. Trump portrayed a man he knows well -- Donald Trump, Manhattan millionaire -- in I`ll Take Manhattan, a CBS-TV miniseries based on the Judith Krantz best seller. The eight-hour show was being filmed around town last week. It is scheduled to air next February. Kranz decided to cast Trump in the role of Trump.

Billionaire Donald Trump left no doubt Tuesday night whom he wants to be Florida's next governor. On the garden level of the tower that bears his name, Trump joined 200 others who threw their support behind Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist. "A friend told me about his record," Trump said. "I checked him out. I met him, I liked him, and I said I could help. Trump said he might campaign for Crist in Florida. Trump, star of The Apprentice television show, has good reason to support a Florida gubernatorial candidate.

Billionaire Donald Trump left no doubt Tuesday night whom he wants to be Florida's next governor. On the garden level of the tower that bears his name, Trump joined 200 others who threw their support behind Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist. "A friend told me about his record," Trump said. "I checked him out. I met him, I liked him, and I said I could help." Trump said he might campaign for Crist in Florida. Trump, star of The Apprentice television show, has good reason to support a Florida gubernatorial candidate.

By Marcia Heroux Pounds Business Writer and Special Correspondent Robyn A. Friedman contributed to this report, May 20, 2005

Thursday night in West Palm Beach there were only tears of joy for Kendra Todd, named the first female Apprentice even though she cried in the boardroom. "We're so proud of her," said Richard Housey, one of about 50 members of the Florida Real Estate Investors Association who gathered before a big screen the Palm Beach County Convention Center to watch Kendra's victory on live TV. "She's been successful in everything she's ever done." "This a show I used to watch on television, now here I am," Todd said, calling after she won. "I walked away from the interviewing process feeling very proud.

Once home to boring bluebloods and blue hairs, Palm Beach is a different place today -- and a lot more fun. Witness Friday night's ultracool red carpet scene when the oh-so-hot Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and the oh-so-lively Star Jones Reynolds made sleepy Palm Beach seem more like South Beach. Breezing in for the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, they lent their time and talents to help raise money for disadvantaged kids. The gig happened at Palm Beach landmark Mar-a-Lago, the posh 17-acre estate built on a cereal fortune.

A hotel bearing Donald Trump's name and the design of renowned architect Michael Graves was unanimously approved Tuesday night, giving momentum to a project considered key to the beach's transformation to a classy tourist destination. The 24-story Trump International Hotel & Tower will rise on State Road A1A on the beachfront, filling the block between Terramar and Windamar streets. Graves, a noted international architect also known for his design of can openers, clocks and toasters sold at Target stores, attended the City Commission meeting, where Vice Mayor Dean Trantalis complimented him for redesigning the hotel to trim its size.

Three of the nation's most formidable developers have joined forces to develop a new condominium project in Sunny Isles Beach. The three developers -- Donald Trump, Dezer Development and The Related Group of Florida Inc. -- have formed a partnership to create Trump Towers, a three-building oceanfront condominium. Trump Towers will rise on a nine-acre site at Collins Avenue and 158th Street. Each building will be 45 stories and will house 271 condominium units. Sales of the first building, Trump Tower I, started -- and ended -- already.

Billionaire Donald Trump left no doubt Tuesday night whom he wants to be Florida's next governor. On the garden level of the tower that bears his name, Trump joined 200 others who threw their support behind Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist. "A friend told me about his record," Trump said. "I checked him out. I met him, I liked him, and I said I could help. Trump said he might campaign for Crist in Florida. Trump, star of The Apprentice television show, has good reason to support a Florida gubernatorial candidate.

Billionaire Donald Trump left no doubt Tuesday night whom he wants to be Florida's next governor. On the garden level of the tower that bears his name, Trump joined 200 others who threw their support behind Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist. "A friend told me about his record," Trump said. "I checked him out. I met him, I liked him, and I said I could help." Trump said he might campaign for Crist in Florida. Trump, star of The Apprentice television show, has good reason to support a Florida gubernatorial candidate.

Donald Trump closes the deal tonight. Altering his trademark-pending phrase from "You're fired" to "You're hired," Trump will designate either Kwame Jackson or Bill Rancic as the recipient of a one-year, $250,000 job running one of Trump's divisions, the grand prize of The Apprentice. When it comes to the art of a deal, Trump has negotiated few better. Whoever winds up the last man standing from an original field of 16 men and women will be working at below-market value, a fact Trump conceded before the competition began in January.

A giant "You're Fired" sign on the Trump Tower in Manhattan has earned Donald Trump's development firm four summonses from the city. The firm does not have a permit and was asked on four occasions to remove the 13-foot tall, 25-foot wide banner that promotes the hit reality television show The Apprentice, the New York Post first reported Friday. Trump told The Daily News that the Fifth Avenue skyscraper's sign was a tourist attraction and "New York should appreciate it instead of fighting it."